Dear Amy: I am a retired older woman. I’ve been chained to my sister “Janet” my entire life.
My first suggestion is that you should never share a room with your sister. You’ve had a lifetime of negative experiences in that regard.As a chronically oppressed person, you also seem to be oppressing yourself, essentially following up on your sister’s bullying by treating it like a secret that must be kept. “Tattling” is what children worry about. Telling your own truth is adult business.
If you can’t bring yourself to confront your sister, then you should at the very least limit contact with her. Refusing to share a room with her on family vacations would be a start. One of her sons was in my class in our small high school. She was extremely active in our church, and as her health started failing, we did what we could to visit with her and be helpful to her family.
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